This moose was photographed yesterday by our new neighbors on the river east of the RV Park, Goran and Flisa Berndtsson. They have seen this nice bull two days in a row and he's most likely living right along the river near here. Mule deer and whitetail deer on the hay fields, beaver in the ponds, and this moose living next door are just some of the wildlife visible right here our ranch.
In the last week there have been grizzly right next to town again, one large boar photographed in our friends yard. We saw three grizzly flying Monday morning also, high above Rams Horn peak. In August most the grizzly move up real high on the shale slopes above the tree line to eat moth that hatch under the rocks. They can eat thousands of moth each day and that is part of their late summer diet, preparing them for winter.
Where we live... Dubois, WY..
Our little town of Dubois is a beautiful mountain town nestled at 7,000'el. between the red badland hills and the tall, solid rock Wind River range.
Crowheart Butte was the site of a battle in 1857 between Shoshone warriors and Arapahoe, Gros Ventre and Cheyenne, who despised the Shoshone for having made peace with the white invaders. Legend says that the Shoshone Chief once fought a duel on Crowheart Butte with a Crow Chieftain, that he killed the Crow, cut out his heart and ate it to augment his courage. Washakie did kill a Crow Chief in personal combat; there is no evidence, however, that he ate his enemy's heart.
Wild horse in the Wyoming Red Desert. Wyoming is full of things you've never experienced.
We love the Red Desert area of WY, and took these photos last fall while hunting there. The Red Desert is above I-80 between Rocksprings and Rawlins, WY. All BLM land, it is open to public use and vehicles. You need to explore it.
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Here's a photo of the Dubois area after a winter snow. Now in April with winter trying to leave, we get a snow once a week or so, but it's gone in a day except for up high. The high mountains have an excellent depth of snow, and the recent rains and snows make for a tremendous spring and summer for western WY.
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